Editorial: A bit of sense on gun laws

Court declines case against N.Y. statute

5:32 PM,
Apr. 16, 2013

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, meets in his office with families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., including Nelba Marquez-Greene, mother of victim Ana Marquez-Greene, and Mark Barden, father of victim Daniel Barden, on April 10, the day he announced that he reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers.

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A Journal News editorial

The Sandy Hook Elementary School parents might as well be talking to the wall in Washington, where the guns-at-darn-near-any-cost lobby has been running up the score, arguing that the Second Amendment is a talisman against virtually any new controls on firearms, no matter how many children are killed. That partly explains why Congress this week is considering the most-porous, watered-down bill to expand federal background checks for firearms buyers - the least-we-can-do response to the Newtown massacre.

A bit of help is coming from the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined ...